WHERE ARE THE NIGERIAN MILITARY SPECIALISTS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF VIOLENCE OR ARE THEY WAITING FOR A RELIGIOUS MAYHEM AS WE WITNESSED IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

WHERE ARE ALL THE TOUGH TALKING GENERALS OF THE NIGERIAN ARMY WHO CLAIMED THAT THEY WERE SPECIALISTS IN TNE MANAGEMENT OF VIOLENCE?

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The governor of Nigeria's embattled Borno state has warned President Goodluck Jonathan that the military is outgunned in its fight against Boko Haram and more troops are urgently needed.

A picture of Government officials stand by a damaged house following an attack by Boko Haram, in Benisheik, Nigeria, was posted here. (AP/Abdulkareem Haruna)

ABUJA: The governor of Nigeria's embattled Borno state warned President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday that the military is outgunned in its fight against Boko Haram and more troops are urgently needed.

Governor Kashim Shettima travelled to the capital Abuja for talks with Jonathan and Nigeria's security chiefs following the latest massacre in Borno of 106 people in the mostly Christian village of Izghe on Saturday.

"We are in a state of war. That is what I came to tell the president," Shettima told reporters after the meeting.

"I made it emphatically clear to Mr. President that Boko Haram are better armed and better motivated," than the security forces, he added.

Unless more troops and more resources are deployed to Borno, "it is absolutely impossible for us to defeat Boko Haram," the governor said.

Borno along with two neighbouring northeastern states was placed under emergency rule in May, when the military launched a major offensive aimed at crushing the Islamist uprising which has killed thousands since 2009.

Attacks have continued despite the beefed up military presence. Borno, where Boko Haram was founded in 2002, has been the hardest hit area.

The extremist militia has said it is fighting to create a strict Islamic state in the country's mainly Muslim north.

Shettima said the Islamists have been able to attack defenceless civilians with ease and made reference to a slaughter last week in the town of Konduga where gunmen seemingly killed residents at-will "for over five hours".

"Have we ever succeeded in thwarting any of their plans?" the governor further said.

He provided a death toll of 106 for the Izghe attack, supporting figures given by other area officials.

"Some were hospitalised with very great injuries, so I am afraid the figures might climb," he added.

The attackers reportedly went door-to-door looking for residents who were hiding, undeterred by the security forces.

Those who were found were dragged outside, gathered together and slaughtered, witnesses said.

While Jonathan has at times sought to portray the military offensive as a success, outrage in the region is building following the repeated failure of the security forces to prevent major attacks, including some in the heart of Borno's capital Maiduguri.

The Nigerian defence headquarters said on Monday that fighting patrols by air and land were being stepped up "in the forests and hills" in the northeast where the militants were hiding.

"The security forces will continue to employ necessary fire power to enhance the effectiveness of the mission until the terrorists are duly curtailed," it said in a statement in reaction to recent deadly attacks.

Some suspected perpetrators of the recent attacks have been arrested, it said, without given details.

Locations that are prone to attacks are being reinforced while general areas has been placed "under heightened surveillance and patrols," it boasted.

Jonathan replaced his entire military brass last month, a move analysts said was linked to frustration with the anti-insurgency campaign.

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I was still a second year student at the university of Lagos where the Great Mathematician PROFESSOR CHIKE OBI of blessed memory queried the purveyors of QUOTA SYSTEM thus; Is bravery and gallantry equally distributed among all men, if so, with Quota System,

WHEN 10 IGBO SOLDIERS DIE AT THE BATTLE FRONT, WILL OUR TROOPS ALL WAIT TILL 10 YORUBAS AND HAUSA SOLDIERS DIE BEFORE THE TROOPS MATCH FORWARD?

We need veritable and practical answers now from the brilliant ex-generals who want to rule Nigeria despite having no political training for the job!

IS THIS NOT WHAT THEY SHOULD SOLVE AS SUPERBRATS IN MILITARY RANKS? Only AIR RAID or probably BLACK SCORPION can come to our rescue now;

Again I love to ask;

WHERE ARE ALL THE TOUGH TALKING GENERALS OF THE NIGERIAN ARMY WHO CLAIMED THAT THEY WERE SPECIALISTS IN TNE MANAGEMENT OF VIOLENCE?

OR ARE WE ALL WAITING TO SEE A REPEAT OCCURRENCE OF WHAT HAPPENED IN AFRICAN CENTRAL REPUBLIC TO HAPPEN IN NIGERIA BEFORE WE TAKE ON OUR NOTORIOUS FIRE AND BRIGADE METHOD…….I WONDER

STORIES THAT BUTTRESS MY DEMAND FOR ONE WORLD RELIGION TO STEM THE TIDE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING OR RELIGIOUS WARS WORLDWIDE

Future of C. African Republic Muslims imperiled

By KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press Updated at 2014-02-09 01:33:14 -0500

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The mob violence wracking Central African Republic imperils the future of the country's Muslims, with tens of thousands fleeing the daily violence and untold numbers killed.

Bangui, the capital, is engulfed in an orgy of bloodshed and looting despite the presence of thousands of French and African peacekeepers.

"We are in a moment where immediate action is needed to stop the killings," Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch told The Associated Press, calling for a full-fledged U.N. peacekeeping mission. "Otherwise the future of the Muslim community of this country will be gone."

Muslims make up about 15 percent of Central African Republic's 4.6 million people. More than 800,000 people have fled their homes —about half of those from the capital, according to the United Nations.

"There are some who don't want Muslims in this country," Prime Minister Andre Nzapayeke said on local radio Saturday. "But when the Muslims have left the country, what happens next? The Protestants will throw out the Catholics, and then the Baptists against the Evangelists, and finally the animists? It is time we regain control and stop ourselves from plunging into an abyss."

Thousands of Muslims left Bangui in a massive convoy Friday that was jeered by crowds of Christians. One Muslim who fell off a truck was quickly killed by the mob. Muslim women who could not get on the trucks tried to hand their children to strangers aboard the vehicles. Whole neighborhoods are abandoned and Muslims who cannot leave are hiding inside mosques that have not already been set ablaze or destroyed by angry crowds.

Entire Muslim communities also have left towns in the rural northwest, sometimes only to come under attack from Christian militiamen and die while trying to get out of the anarchic country.

Across a wide stretch of northwest Central African Republic, Christian militiamen known as the anti-Balaka (or anti-machete) have driven tens of thousands of Muslims out of the area. Many are seeking refuge in Chad or Cameroon, as there are few corners of Central African Republic where Muslims are an outright majority.

The violence against the Muslims is in reaction to abuses perpetrated by the Muslim Seleka rebels during their 10-month rule that began last March. Seleke fighters tied their victims together and threw them off bridges to drown or be eaten by crocodiles, according to witnesses. Now that Seleka's leader Michel Djotodia stepped down from the presidency last month and a precarious civilian interim government is in charge, it is the country's Muslim minority that is now under assault.

No one knows the true death toll from two months of the worst inter-communal violence in this country's history: It is often too dangerous for crews to recover the corpses. More than 1,000 were killed during several days of fighting in early December, when a Christian militia attempted to overthrow the Muslim rebel government then in power.

A preliminary investigation into potential war crimes or crimes against humanity has been opened, Fatou Bensouda, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Friday.

Babacar Gaye, the U.N.'s special representative to Central African Republic, has called for the murderers to be held accountable. Yet in a country where police officers long ago fled their jobs and courthouses are shuttered and looted, it's not even clear where to begin.

Central African Republic was already one of the world's poorest and most lawless countries even before the March 2013 coup by Muslim rebels from the north plunged the nation into deeper crisis. When the extra French troops first arrived in early December, more than 100,000 people sought refuge at the airport they guarded in the hope it would keep them safe. That displacement camp has become a city within a city now dubbed "The Ledger" after the city's sole five-star luxury hotel.

French defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told RTL radio on Thursday the military is likely to extend its mission in Central African Republic beyond the U.N.-mandated six-month mission.

"We are going to avoid the worst," Le Drian said. "By our presence we can lower tensions on the ground, to pave the way for a peaceful political transition."

That still seems like a distant goal in Central African Republic, a country with a long history of coups, rebellions and failed peace agreements. Given the unprecedented nature of the violence, no one can say how this all will end.

In the lawless capital, a 19-year-old Muslim woman in the Kokoro neighborhood said a group of armed men this week had come to her house after midnight crying "It's you Muslims!"

"They gave us a minute to come to the living room or else they threatened to throw a grenade," she said. "Four of them ripped my clothes off and raped me one by one. Another raped my sister, who is only 14 years old. They asked where our father had hid weapons in the house and we told him we didn't have any.

"After that, I cannot say that the situation is improving for us," she said. "We are Muslims, yes, but we are also Central Africans. Where will we go? We were born here. This is our country."

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Associated Press writer Hippolyte Marboua in Bangui, Central African Republic contributed to this report.

COMMENTARIES ON THE INTERNET ABOUT A BEDEVILLED NIGERIA

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The heavyweights in Northern Politics are to be responsible for this. Yet they want to become PRESIDENTS without the political training needed for the job. Whereas General Yakubu Gowon, REALISED HIS ERRORS AND SO WENT BACK TO SCHOOL, the fools who served under him during the needless civil war think that A NIGERIAN MAJOR GENERAL RANK UNDESERVEDLY HOISTED ON THEM DURING THE BACKYARD WAR ENTITLES THEM TO A DOCTORAL DEGREE IN GOVERNANCE. I weep for them and their progeny.

Jude Danmbaezue 

THE FALLACY OF BELIEVING THAT A SOLDIER CAN LEAD CIVILIANS IN A DEMOCRACY IS UTTERLY FALSE, PUERILE AND UNINTELLIGENT. SOLDIERS LEAD MEN WHO WERE TRAINED TO OBEY ORDERS BLINDLY WITHOUT QUESTIONS AT THE BATTLEFRONT. SO NO REAL TRAINED OFFICER CAN LEAD MEN WHO HAVE THE OPTION TO REFUSE ORDERS, ASK QUESTIONS AND DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES THE RIGHT COURSE OF ACTIONS TO TAKE. LET US FACE THE FACTS. THE PROLONGED MILITARY RULE IS WHAT DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY. LET US STOP THE FOOLERY OF THINKING THAT ANY BUHARI, BABAGINDA, OBASANJO e.t.c. .e.e.t.c. IS QUALIFIED TO BECOME A PRESIDENT or EVEN A GOVERNOR IN A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED ADMINISTRATION. .....................

THE REASON ALL OF THEM ARE IN GOVERNMENT IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO HANDICRAFT, PROFESSIONAL SKILLS TO EARN A LIVING, SO THE NIGERIAN POLITY IS CONVERTED TO ENEMY WAR FRONTS AND THEY LOOT OUR TREASURIES. .............

BELOW IS THE ONLY SOLDIER I KNOW WHO NEVER PARTICIPATED IN ANY GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS OR CIVILIAN POLITICS SINCE RETIREMENT IN THE 198OS

AND TO DATE IS A PRIVATELY EMPLOYED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST WHO COUNSELS ADOLESCENTS ABOUT TO MARRY AND TREATS OTHERS PASSING THROUGH MARITAL CRISES.

HE HAS A TOTAL 15 STANDARDISED PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS FOR SCIENTIFIC FAMILY COUNSELLING AND HAS WRITTEN MORE THAN 9 BOOKS ON FAMILY HEALTH ISSUES. HE OWNS THIS SITE THAT HAS BEEN 'ENWISDOMISING' THOUSANDS OF YOUTHS.

I was still a second year student at the university of Lagos where the Great Mathematician PROFESSOR CHIKE OBI of blessed memory queried the purveyors of QUOTA SYSTEM thus; Is bravery and gallantry equally distributed among all men, if so, with Quota System, 
WHEN 10 IGBO SOLDIERS DIE AT THE BATTLE FRONT, WILL OUR TROOPS ALL WAIT TILL 10 YORUBAS AND HAUSA SOLDIERS DIE BEFORE THE TROOPS MATCH FORWARD? We need veritable and practical answers now from the brilliant ex-generals who want to rule Nigeria despite having no political training for the job! IS THIS NOT WHAT THEY SHOULD SOLVE AS SUPERBRATS IN MILITARY RANKS? Only AIR RAID or probably BLACK SCORPION can come to our rescue now;

WE NEED AN INDEPENDENT FREE FOR ALL NATIONAL CONFERENCE OR ELSE FULFILL THE PREDICTIONS MADE BY SOME U S A POLITICAL ANALYSTS AND FUTURISTIC PUNDITS WHO HAD PREDICTED AS FAR BACK AS 2012 THAT NIGERIA WILL BREAK UP IN 2015 AND WE DID NOT TAKE THEM SERIOUS. WHAT WILL SAVE US IS A TRUE FEDERALISM ALONG THE LINES AGREED AT ABURI DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF THE UNNECESSARY AND FRATRICIDAL CIVIL WAR THAT PORTRAYED IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE THE FUTILITY OF LORD LUGARD'S NEO-COLONIALISM MISADVENTURE OF AMALGAMATION OF 1914 ............

It is inevitable now. Nigeria cannot stand some people, who have a very queer mindset. They believe their religion is superior. They are sympathetic to Boko Haram. They are victims of a 50 year old brain-washing agenda. Some politicians mobilized them along ethnic and religious lines during last elections.
They were told that Southerners are infidels. Nigeria simply cannot survive the way it is structured. These ignorant Northern youths are merely victims of brain-washing. The violence will continue even after Boko Haram. Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder.
It is not Jonathan’s fault. Jonathan’s is merely the target. Nigeria must be restructured now before it is too late. The ongoing exodus of Ndigbo from the North and the refusal of the government to assist them is the last straw. If something gives and violence erupts, Nigeria will simply cease to exist. Igbo is a very dynamic race, when Ndigbo take up arms, not even the UN can contain the explosion.

THE REMEDY TO THE NIGERIAN PERENNIAL MILITARY SEEKING TO BE PRESIDENTS OR GOVERNORS QUESTION IS TO BAN ALL SOLDIERS FROM POLITICS UNTIL EACH HAS GOT AT LEAST A BACHELORS DEGREE IN POLITICS SAYS DR JIDEOFO DANMBAEZUE, A retired Flt Lt of the Nigerian Air Force 1976 - 1979 and Major in the Biafran Commandos, 1968 – 1969

2015: WILL HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF IN NIGERIA?
By Osondu Ahirika and Kenez Danmbaezue

George Santayana it was, who said, "Those that forget history are condemned to repeat it." That's a fact of life as real as reality. This is in spite of St. Paul's disclosure that, "...this one thing I do, forgetting that which is past, I look forward to the goal that I may win the prize..."(see Philippians 3:13). Such amnesia for the past canvassed here by Paul is contextual, and cannot abrogate the realism of Santayana's maxim. 

If you had doubt that history does replicate itself, then let me shock you with these facts. If you have the calendar of 1975, don't throw it away. It is the same with the 2014 calendar currently in use. Its January 1, falls Wednesday and it ends on Wednesday 31 also. Same with 2014.

Other years that share strictly same datelines with 2014 are, 1986, 1997, and 2003 for the past. In future, this 2014 calendar will replay for the year 2025 and 2031. Truth is, every year has such parities, past and future.

If that does not suffice, then this should. football stakers in Pool who characteristically follow the English and Australian football seasons will tell you their forecast finds solid assurance in both hindsight and foresight. They bet, because, they believe most assuredly, that, history will repeat itself. Often, it does. Sometimes in reverse order. For, as one philosopher said, history repeats itself, but as a farce. 

Take this too. On Sunday, March 2, 2014, Nigerian International Ike Uche was sent off while playing for VillarREAL football club at home against REAL Betis FC in the Spanish La Liga. This was the second red card of his career. Ironically, three years ago, precisely on April 18, 2011, Ike Uche was given the marching order, in a game he was playing then, for REAL Zaragoza FC against VillarREAL FC. Can you discern the pranks history plays sometimes in her reincarnation? That's why I deliberately capitalized the word, REAL, in Uche's real experience. See the farcical trajectory of history with Uche. 

Okay, done with that, I believe I have convinced you that, history does repeat itself, when we ignore its trail. See the alignment at APC for instance....What did Akintola do with Ahmadu that is not being repeated by Tinubu and Buhari now. strange bed-fellows are teaming up again as was the case in 1965 before the WILD WILD WEST saga that precipitated the 1966 coup d'etat and the civil war. Boko Haram is a mirror image of Wild Wild West, and the present poaching of PDP stalwarts by APC strategists who went all the way to America to hire political crooks to plot the results of an election to be held in 23 months distant time.... A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE .. BUT I FEAR WE HAVE NO WISE MEN IN NIGERIA NOR SOCIAL PHILOSOPHERS WITH HINDSIGHT.

Major Nzeogwu Kenechukwu Mbaezue, BA 6532,

12th Degema Strike Force, Biafran commandos 1968 -1970

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Flt Lt Jideofo Kenechukwu Davidan Mbaezue, NAF 759,

Foundation Medical Officer, Trainee Pilots Psychologist,

NAF Medical Centre, Kano, Kaduna 1976 -1979